| Summary: | This image depicts an "explosion of the lately captured Confederate ammunition," which occurred after the Civil War, "some time after the termination of the hostilities." It appeared in THE SOUTH by John T. Trowbridge, published in 1866. The full title of the book is THE SOUTH: A TOUR OF ITS BATTLE-FIELDS AND RUINED CITIES, A JOURNEY THROUGH THE DESOLATED STATES, AND TALKS WITH THE PEOPLE: BEING A DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT STATE OF THE COUNTRY - ITS AGRICULTURE - RAILROADS - BUSINESS AND FINANCES - GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF CONFEDERATE MISRULE, AND OF THE SUFFERINGS, NECESSITIES AND MISTAKES, POLITICAL VIEWS, SOCIAL CONDITION AND PROSPECTS, OF THE ARISTOCRACY, MIDDLE CLASS, POOR WHITES AND NEGROES.
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